r/spinalcordinjuries

I’ve been getting that familiar feeling over the past few weeks. This life is really really hard. I’ll do what I usually do and stay distracted and busy. I’ll work a lot, try to fix things that are broken or plan future trips to new places. Maybe call my old friend from HS and catch up. I usually just kind of recognize that I’m lonely and that I’m feeling unwanted and I just kind of let it sit and suppress it so that it doesn’t take over because I know it will if I don’t. At some point it will fade to be a small occasional whisper instead of a constant loud yelling. I don’t think I’m near that place yet though.

Basically the title.

c5/6 complete, Asia a, normally no sensation below my sternum other than pins and needles nerve pain in my feet.

But over the past few months and really ramping up in the past week my left leg hurts. It feels like the bone hurts, just a really deep ache.

No bruising or redness anywhere, I haven’t had any falls in years. Do you think this would be worth bringing up with the doctor? I’m not interested in going to pain management, as long as I’m not thinking about it it doesn’t hurt, it’s only really bothersome when I’m trying to fall asleep.

I’m just worried my leg got injured somehow. Either that or it’s leg cancer (jk).

Anybody gone through something similar?

I have a T4 complete SCI and I’m independent, I am also a qualified Social Worker. My partner and I are considering looking into becoming Foster Carers. Anyone else with a SCI a Foster Carer? What was the process like? How did you find navigating it with a disability?

Hi,

I'm 28 (M) and I have a t10 incomplete spinal cord injury. And I'm so tired of being constipated and alternate it with diarrhea episodes.

For your information, I can walk, but just a few steps, not too much meters...

My problem is if I take magnesia or movicol and I walk I have diarrhea, if I don't take it I'm constipated.

I have been taking metamucil (pills), for a week, without magnesia and movicol and I don't feel any different effects.

Forgot to eat dinner last night, I have a bad habit of that sometimes. Usually when I miss a meal, I'm okay till the next meal. But I only got 3 hours of sleep last night, and I woke up completely soaked in sweat from shoulders to toes. I've been feeling extremely dehydrated, dizzy, seeing white spots and flashes. I'm currently taking steady drinks of a nice cold electrolyte enhanced sugar-free Gatorade. My assistant is grabbing me breakfast from Hardee's as we speak. Really hoping this passes by after I get some food in me and hydrate a little more. Wish me luck.

So for my injury, I was a power lifter at my university and I really enjoyed going to the gym and getting checked after my injury. I was in an induced coma for about two months resulting in me losing every ounce of muscle I had I’m a C4 incomplete injury and regained some extent of arm function, and was wondering if any tetras were able to go back to the gym and get really jacked and how does it really work for example how would you do lat pull downs and transfer into harder equipment or just in general? How does it work?

It seems like when I get in bed that’s when i get bladder spasms. These spasms cause AD, making me sweat profusely, and now I’m getting headaches to go with it. It’s not a UTI because i just got tested for it. I’m even taking medication for it and still I get it sometimes. When will it stop..